Meditation is much more than a way to relax and be free from stress. Meditation can be a door to a new life. The meditation I teach is the discovery of your true nature as freedom, clarity and lightness of being here and now. I invite you to join me for a weekend meditation retreat to begin the new year of 2012 in a beautiful place with delicious vegetarian food near Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra. It is a precious opportunity to begin the new year in alignment with spirit and to make yourself available for the evolution of consciousness that is so desperately needed in our troubled world.

Please support us during our Meditation Marathon to raise funds to complete the new buildings and come and visit us in 2012. Even a small donation will help, for example 5€ will buy a fruit tree! You can see the progress here…

We invite you to join us and support us for our Meditation Marathon starting on Saturday December 10 at 10am and finishing on Sunday December 11th at 10am. Our Meditation Marathon last year was a great success (We reached our goal of 20,000€!). This money helped us to renovate another of the ruins of Quinta da Mizarela. Lots of work has been done that you can read about here. Its exciting to see how much we have done but there is still more to go and that is why we are having our 2nd Meditation Marathon.

As I sit in our flat in the middle of London, I think back to the wonderful time my partner Rod and I had at the Awakened Life Project in Portugal ….experiencing elegance in the back of beyond!

Cynthia & Jane in front of rustic elegant bathroom

We arrived at the Quinta late in the evening and ventured down the track under a full canopy of stars. First stop was a tasty raw food meal, the first of many, served in one of several slate buildings that are being beautifully restored in the traditional Portuguese style. Continue reading →